Skirt-marker.



310.824,851. l PATENTED JULY s, 1906. E. A. EALLIS & W.'1.. Vlafamm SKIRT MARKER.-

APPLIOATION FILED NOV. 15, 1905.

* www UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELIZABETH A. FALLIS AND WILLIAM L. BATEMAN, OF ST. LOUIS,

MISSOURI.

SKIRT-MARKER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

' PatentedJuly 3, 1906.

,Application mea November 15,1905. sel-aal No. 287,535."

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ELIZABETH A. FAL- LIs and WILLIAM L. BATEMAN, citizens of the United States, residing at St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Skirt-Markers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the action of the marker end of the oscillating arm,

and Fig; is a vertical section on line 5 5 of gl`he object of our invention is to construct a marker which will accuratel indicate the line along which the bottom o a ladys skirt shall be taken up or shortened in the event the same is not of the proper'length, one which shall be constructed of a minimum number of arts, one which shall be mechanically simp e, one insuring of a permanent relation between the chalk-socket and chalkrest, and one possessing further and other advantages better apparent from a detailed lescription of the invention, which is asfolows:

Referring tothe drawings, 1 represents a suitable base or standard, above which is supported a platform 2, the two being se arated by a central reduced portion or staff) 3 about which is free to swing in a horizontal plane the bent arm 4. The inner horizontal portion of the arm 'is secured to a sleeve or ub 5, loosely mounted on the staff 3, the

hub vbeing preferably supported by an annular ring or collar 5, as shown. The outer horizontal portion of the arm 4 is connected to the inner lower horizontal portion by the intermediate vertical portion, as shown, the said outer terminal of the arm being disposed substantially in the plane of the upper surface of the platform 2. .and oscillatlngin said lane.

A justable horizontally along the outer horizontal portion of the arm 4 to and from the platform 2 is a sleeve 6, whose outer end has secured thereto a vertical scale or scalerod 7, marked with suitable divisions, (preferably inches and Vfractions thereof.) Sliding u and down the scale 7 is a socket 8, which w en once adjusted can be secured in position by a screw 9, the socket having secured thereto an inwardly-projecting horizontal tube 10, in which is housed a coiled spring 11, whose inner end-that is, the end pointing toward the platform-bears against and is secured to a disk 12, loosely coniined in the tube, the disk havin pro'ecting therefrom a in or stem 13, whiz is free to operate in a ongitudinal slit 13, formed in the Wall of the tube. By seizing the projecting end of the stem 13 and moving the disk outwardly the spring can be compressed when occasion re-v quires the insertion of a marker or a cylinder of chalk 14 into the-open end of the tube.

Theinner end of' the sleeve' has secured thereto a rod 15, parallel and opposite to the scale-rod 7, the rod 15 having mounted thereon the vertically-adjustable chalk-rest 16, said restcom rising -a disk secured to a vsocket 17, sliding up and down the -rod 15 and held thereto by a clamping-screw 18. The spring 11 normally forces the chalk against the chalk-rest 16, and when the skirt S is brought between the chalk and the chalkrest, Fig. 1, a chalk line or mark m can be marked olf on the outside of the skirt by simv ply oscillating the arm 4 about the axis of the staff 3. Since the outer end of the arm`4is disposed in the plane of the upper surface of the platform 2, the calculations 'can always be referred to said plane, and the height of the mark m will accurately represent the elevation thereof above the floor or surface on Which the wearer of the skirt maybe walking. The sleeve 6, with its scale and chalkrest, can of course be accurately adjusted to and from the platform along the arm 4 according to the diameterof the base of the skirt and when once adjusted can be securely clam ed by the screw 19.

Having escribed our invention, what we claim is '1. A skirt-marker comprisin a suitable base, a platform surmounting and. having its free end disposed substantially in the planel of the u per surface of the platform, a sleeve sliding y mounted on the p t e same, an, arm mounted rotatably below the platform.`

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arm, a scale on the sleeve, a rod on the sleeve disposed parallel to the scale, a chalk-rest on the rod, and a marker mounted on the scale and cooperating with the chalk-rest, substantially as set forth.

2. A skirt-marker comprising a suitable base, a platform surmounting the same, a staff between the base and platform,:a hub rotatable on the staff, an arm secured to the hub and having an outer portion disposed, and rotating in the plane of the upper surface of the platform, a sleeve slidingly mounted on the arm, a rigid vertical scale secured to the sleeve, a tube mounted on and vertically adjustable on the scale, a marker received by said tube, a rod secured to the sleeve and disposed parallel to the scale, a chalk-rest adjustable along said rod, and a spring mounted in the tube behind the chalk or marker and adapted to force the chalk against the chalk-rest, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof We aflix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

ELrZABETH A. FALLIs. WILLIAM L. BATEMAN.

Witnesses:

EMIL STAREK, MARY D. WHrrooMB. 

